"Nick Coghlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<snip discussion indicating that our brains work different on this issue> I am reminded of how some people seem to react to fingernails on a blackboard, while the screech is just another noise to me, except that I am in the opposite position with respect to a if b else c. > Does it help if you think of "if <C> else" as a parameterised infix > operation > for choosing between the expressions on either side? Hmm. If I parse it as a (if b else) c and sort of ignore the words and think of it as <T c F> so that the whole thing is a switch pointing either left or right? A bit strange, but perhaps it does. Terry J. Reedy _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com